ArticleFrontiers in medicine2021
Fibromyalgia and Associated Disorders: From Pain to Chronic Suffering, From Subjective Hypersensitivity to Hypersensitivity Syndrome.
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- Does Vitamin D Supplementation Impact Fibromyalgia-Related Pain? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Nutrients · 2025Pooled it
- Hyperbaric oxygen therapy vs. pharmacological intervention in adults with fibromyalgia related to childhood sexual abuse: prospective, randomized clinical trial.Scientific reports · 2024Trial
- Editorial: Integrative approaches to fibromyalgia: advancing multidisciplinary management strategies.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Article
- Knowledge, perception and attitude toward fibromyalgia among physical therapists in the United Arab Emirates: A cross-sectional study.PloS one · 2026Article
- Evaluation of reserpine-induced fibromyalgia in mice: A comparative behavioral, neurochemical, and histological assessment of two doses.IBRO neuroscience reports · 2025Article
- Assessing comorbid PTSD, depression, and anxiety in fibromyalgia patients: a retrospective observational study.BMC psychiatry · 2025Observational
- A Comprehensive Analysis of Fibromyalgia and the Role of the Endogenous Opioid System.Biomedicines · 2025Review
- Insights into diagnosis and treatment of fibromyalgia among Moroccan rheumatologists: a cross sectional online survey.Reumatologia · 2025Article
- Integrating nociplastic pain into neuropathic pain framework: a proposal for a revised classification.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Psychological Features of Fibromyalgia in the Psychological Health Services.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Diffuse Pain Revealing Clinically Unapparent Subcutaneous Sarcoidosis.Acta dermato-venereologica · 2024Article
- Inflammation, Autoimmunity, and Infection in Fibromyalgia: A Narrative Review.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
- Translation, cross-cultural adaptation and psychometric properties of the Urdu version of the avoidance endurance behavior questionnaire in patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain.Journal of back and musculoskeletal rehabilitation · 2024Article
- Central and peripheral mechanisms of pain in fibromyalgia: scoping review protocol.Rheumatology international · 2023Article
- Fibromyalgia - etiology, diagnosis and treatment including perioperative management in patients with fibromyalgia.Reumatologia · 2023Review
- The Relationship between Daily Physical Activity, Psychological Factors, and Vegetative Symptoms in Women with Fibromyalgia: A Cross-Sectional Observational Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Observational
- Pharmacological treatments of fibromyalgia in adults; overview of phase IV clinical trials.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2022Review
- Cultural Validation of the Chinese Central Sensitization Inventory in Patients with Chronic Pain and its Predictive Ability of Comorbid Central Sensitivity Syndromes.Journal of pain research · 2022Article
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Abstract
The concept of fibromyalgia has progressed to achieve a certain consensus regarding the definition of the condition. We summarize what is known in 2020, be it in terms of diagnosis, with the criteria that have changed over the years, or at the level of the psychological profile, via the notions of "catastrophizing" and "coping" and post-traumatic syndrome. The importance of fatigue and sleep disorders is underlined, with the chronological sequence of post-traumatic syndrome, chronic fatigue, and then amplification of the pain and the onset of multiple associated symptoms. The etiopathogenic debate has been enriched thanks to neuro-imaging data to discover the start of the central neurological signature. The many associated symptoms are reanalyzed in the context of so-called sister conditions which form sometimes more or less separate entities, such as chronic fatigue syndrome or restless legs syndrome for example. What these conditions have in common is hypersensitivity, not just to pain, but also to all exteroceptive stimuli, from deep sensitivity in the neuro-vegetative system, the sense organs and certain functions of the central nervous system, to the psychological aspects and sleep control. In summary, it is possible to define fibromyalgia as a cognitive disorder of cortical integration of chronic pain, with amplification of painful and sensory nociception, decrease in the threshold for the perception of pain, and persistence of a stimulus that maintains the process in chronicity. Fibromyalgia is part of a group of chronic hypersensitivity syndromes of central origin, with a very wide range of means of expression.
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